Sunday, December 14, 2008

Priory Farm (Selborne) sale

Priory farm, occupied by Benjamin FITT (1800 - 1869), was put up for sale in 1866. Advertisements appeared in the August and September editions of 'The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle' for 'a very Valuable Leasehold Estate'.

Could it be that Magdalen College, Oxford were disposing of their assets?

From his death certificate, Benjamin FITT died at Selborne, all other certificates state 'Priory Farm, Selborne'. So it could be that Benjamin and Dinah were already set up as butchers in Selborne at the time of Benjamin's death in 1869.